WordPress on Raspberry Pi

Verify your entries in wp-config.php

From a command line try

mysql -u DB_USER -pDB_PASS -h DB_HOST DB_NAME

making the appropriate substitutions (and note that there is no space after “-p”).

That opened up MySQL in the command line, if that’s what it was supposed to do.

I don’t have a wp-config.php file, only wp-config.php. I believe the configuration process through the browser should create the non sample file. I tried creating it myself and putting in the relevant information. However, when I tried to connect through the browser I was just met by a white screen with black writing at the top saying that it couldn’t connect to the database.

Do you have the necessary PHP libraries installed to access MySQL?

Yes, I installed the MySQL PHP package. If you have a look at the link in my first post, I followed all instructions in that.

is mysql running?

ps -ef |grep mysql

I’m not going to dig through that tutorial. If you have questions about its specifics, contact its author.

I generally create the database *before* installing wordpress, then use that info when running the install. And the user I use for the WP database is never ‘root’.

create a database first.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

This is what it comes up with:

mysql 15824 1 0 00:05 ? 00:00:53 /usr/sbin/mysqld
m20tgd 21400 21362 0 23:33 pts/0 00:00:00 grep –color=auto mysql

I assume that as it’s listed it means it’s working.

Yup. Make a wp-config.php by hand from the sample file.

I did try that and just got a white screen with black text telling me it couldn’t stabilise a connection with the database when I tried to access it from the browser.

I’ll try again as I’ve changed a few other things since. It may be an issue with how the Pi is configured if not, so I’ll get help from another forum.

Having same problem, not completley new to linux, but new to setting up a lamp server and bought ‘raspberry pi 3’ to learn how to set up and use a lamp to be able to learn how to process data sent from my website and have the resualts returned to my site. Anyway, I too stumbled upon the same tutorial and am experiancing the same problem, or close to it. Instead of popping up the install webpage for wordpress, it is just popping up the php code in my browser that sounds like it should be redirecting me to the site but its not… I have questions but I don’t want to hijack this thread and will stay posted to see what comes of this thread before starting my own. Thank you for any help.

I managed to find the solution elsewhere.

It’s the 3rd or 4th post down that worked for me. It’s the one that describes changing the PlugIn data for the root user to the standard password for the account.

ok ill let you know how it works, thanks for timley response!!! ??